Q. How do I know when it’s time to pick my pears? Last year I picked them when I thought they were ripe, but they were bad (the cores were brown and mushy). European pears need to be harvested when ...

Growing a pear tree gives you sweet fruit and year-round beauty with very little maintenance required. For success, choose the right variety for your climate, plant in full sun, and water deeply each ...

Autumn paints the lawn gold, and rakes stay in the shed. A quiet choice now shapes what ripens on your trees. As the last apples drop and the first frosts ...

Recently, a reader wrote to the Centre Daily Times that their neighbor experienced several flat tires on his farm machinery this summer while making hay in fields around his Boalsburg farm.

Now that spring is within shouting distance, the landscape is filling up with the fluffy white blossoms of the Bradford pear tree. In recent decades, the trees have become commonplace in suburban ...